Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

This role is remote and requires a Secret security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Architect and operate enterprise Kubernetes clusters.
• Implement security hardening and compliance within container platforms.
• Define container platform standards and governance.
• Provide architecture guidance for containerized applications to Lead Cloud Architect and government stakeholders.
• Ensure scalability, performance, and security of container workloads.
• Integrate Kubernetes into CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms.
• Support multi-cloud container orchestration strategies.
• Support monitoring and logging for container environments.
• Collaborate with cloud architects and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance.
• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• 5+ years Kubernetes platform experience.
• Advanced certification (e.g. CKA, CKS, or similar advanced Kubernetes/platform certification).
• Active IAT/IAM Level II certification.
• Experience with DoD cloud environments (e.g., Platform One, Cloud One, AWS Gov Cloud, etc.) and Kubernetes-based PaaS.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise with service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) and ingress architectures.
• Experience in multi-cluster / multi-region deployments to include scaling best practices and related strategies.
• Knowledge of container security (runtime protection, image scanning).
• Familiarity with GitOps (ArgoCD, Flux) and platform automation.

Pay

Annual salary range: $140,000 – $160,000.

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including job location, education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel, external market and internal value analysis, seniority, and merit systems. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays, and paid time off.